A lot of nutty things appear in the AVA's “online comments” section, and we might want to include this one under that heading. The idle brain can come up with lots of strange thoughts, for sure.
This morning after seeing a lot of - too much - media on the Oregon bird sanctuary occupation by cowboy-hatted so-called patriots, I started thinking about the name Bundy. The sons of Cliven, Mormons both. Cliven spilled a lot of beans, without meaning to, about the mind of the white religious flag-waving population. Black people were better off as slaves, for instance. And federally-owned land belongs to the people, so Cliven, declaring himself “the people,” began exploiting the property as his own. He had, of course, no idea how dumb he sounded, but it was enough to draw a like-minded gun-toting crowd to help fight off the authorities. And now the sons of Bundy are ready to do it all again, trying to prove something or other, I have no idea what exactly.
Outside of Portland, Oregon is a very white place as is most of the Pacific Northwest. When I lived up there - early 90's - two incidents of cross-burnings in the yards of mixed-race families were in the news. Both, by the way, were on or closely adjacent to Navy bases - one on Whidbey Island and the other in Norwegian-themed Poulsbo. Just across Liberty Bay from the Keyport naval facility, which neither confirms nor denies the presence of nuclear weapons. Willkommen in Poulsbo, say the sidewalk trolls. Coincidence? Can't be sure. All I know about the Navy, other than rumors of seagoing buggery, is never play poker with a veteran of Navy service unless you want to be cheated out of your money. They're experts, or so one informed me.
It gives me the creeps to think about all the ultra-white “militia” types and their bunkers in Idaho filled with emergency supplies and guns, and I can picture them sitting down there eating from dehydrated food packets, waiting grimly for Obama or the U.N. to come after their precious firearms.
Anyway, I think of bible-thumping neo-nazi types and the Bundys all in the same breath. And suddenly I remembered a TV show called “Married with Children,” about a crude, rude and socially maladjusted white family called....yep, Bundy.
And so we come to the most famous Bundy of all, Ted, the notorious serial killer who described himself as “the most cold-hearted son of a bitch you'll ever meet.” (One may pause to notice that all the big time serial killers have been white). Ted got the name Bundy after his mother married someone with that name in Tacoma, Washington.
There must of course be decent, reasonable white Christians out there somewhere. And decent, reasonable people named Bundy, too. Right? Just askin'.
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